Emperor Constantine V was the son of Emperor Leo III of Constantinople (r. 717-741), a ruler who brought much-needed stability to the Byzantine Empire...
There are many ancient accounts and commentaries about the origin of the centaurs, a mythological race of half-horse, half-man beings supposedly located in the...
This impressive set of medieval 15th-century armor was largely pieced together from the remnants of unconnected items of Italian equipment discovered at a Venetian...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"Heaven calls,
And, round about you wheeling, courts your gaze
With everlasting beauties. Yet your eye
Turns with fond doting still upon the earth.
Therefore...
Anna Komnene (c. 1083-1153)
"Such is every barbarian - constantly lusting after massacre and war."
The Alexiad (Book IX, section 3) by Anna Komnene, translated by...
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
"In you there is nothing that we hate, nothing we detest, nothing we abominate, nothing we condemn, except human error."
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